Tag Archives: lawsuits

Portland Community College is suing architecture and engineering firms that performed work for the College Services Building on its Sylvania campus. The school claims that Opsis Architecture and Group Mackenzie failed to adequately design the concrete floors of the $5.25 million building, which has floors that sag excessively.

Contractors across the nation may soon be following an Oregon legal dispute. The relatively complicated FountainCourt case began in 2007. The board of directors of the Associated General Contractors’ Oregon-Columbia chapter last week voted to take action on the Washington County lawsuit, saying it could have serious implications for the construction industry.

To bond or not to bond? That is the question behind a class action lawsuit that Oregon tenants are bringing against a Northwest property management firm. The lawsuit challenges Vancouver, Wash.-based Quantum Residential Inc.’s practice of allegedly requiring tenants to purchase nonrefundable bonds in lieu of providing security deposits.

The $20 million Boeckman Road extension in Wilsonville has been sinking since it opened in 2008, and now the city may need to close the bridge for as long as a year while construction crews fix engineering flaws.

The city of Forest Grove is appealing a jury’s decision in September that found the city and two of its employees liable for “abuse of power,” and awarded David Hill Development $6.5 million in damages.

The owner of the building that houses Nordstrom in downtown Portland has filed a lawsuit against TMT Development. The building owner, Parr Financial, claims a crane for TMT's stalled Park Avenue West high-rise project is interfering with the building.